Reply To: D-Day 74th Anniversary- Family History

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What a wonderful family heirloom 🙂

I don’t really have anything related to either of my Grandfather’s time during world war II except for a letter by my Mums Father, Roddy, entitled ‘One night over Essen’ and a copy of the roster of his 460 squadron. My Grandfather on Dad’s side, Fred, spent the majority of the war with the RAF training or being trained on different aircraft, from Canada to the UK, Africa to Italy. I know Roddy flew two tours of 24(?) missions as a navigator in medium and heavy bombers and lost a lot of close friends as a result. Fred’s closest encounter (fortunately) with the “enemy” was a night training mission in Egypt where the Yanks opened up on them upon their return to the airfield.